Shortly before 10AM on the 16th of May, police raided the Embassy of Venezuala a second time. On territory where no US law enforcement has any jurisdiction unless invited by the government of the day(that's Maduro's government), they arrested the four remaining Embassy Defenders. The Embassy defenders were holding the embassy against US backed coup leader Juan Guaido and his False Ambassador Vecchio at the invitation of the current government of Venezuala. This violation of the Vienna Convention puts US embasssies globally at risk, possibly ALL embassies.

Shortly after 6PM, False Ambassador Vecchio showed up to give a speech, only to find Code Pink was still outside waiting for him. As he tried to speak presumably of his ambitions for the embassy and of Guado's designs on Venezuala a chorus of boos shouted him down.Another member of Guado's inner circle notorious for supporting a US invasion of Venezuala also showed up, only to leave under a storm of jeering. As of 11:25PM EDT on May 16th, there are no reports yet of MPD or Secret Service turning the building over to Juan Guaido's false "ambassador" Vecchio.

Video featuring DC Direct Action News clips of the general scene at the Embassy plus Alex Rubenstein footage of False Ambassador Vecchio being booed down and the crowd singing in response to him. During this whole time, police had protesters fenced into dangerous

"protest pens" that more than once (notably in places like NYC but elsehwere too) have turned into dangerous traps